I went over to check out Cold Magic at Amazon and one of the recommendations under it was Rosemary and Rue about a half-fairy PI. I thought it looked interesting -- has anyone here read it?
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sumi - Sep 18, 2010 9:14:11 am PDT #12426 of 28326
Art Crawl!!!
Pix - Sep 18, 2010 9:20:21 am PDT #12427 of 28326
The status is NOT quo.
I just bought Cold Magic on the iPhone to read in the ER. Thanks for the rec.
DavidS - Sep 18, 2010 12:37:10 pm PDT #12428 of 28326
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
and one of the recommendations under it was Rosemary and Rue about a half-fairy PI.
Isn't that the book by P-Cow's friend, Seanan?
Strix - Sep 18, 2010 2:45:17 pm PDT #12429 of 28326
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
Yep, David. I read it; I liked it, but I wasn't blown away by it.
Consuela - Sep 18, 2010 3:57:07 pm PDT #12430 of 28326
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
Rosemary & Rue is an urban fantasy set in SF with an adult woman (with an interesting history) as the lead. It's not one of the half-naked kickass female lead stories, a la Laurell K. Hamilton. I liked it well enough, but not enough to get the next one--urban fantasy just isn't my beautiful cake anymore.
But McGuire won the Campbell Award for best new writer, on the strength of that and Feed, a post-zombie apocalypse political thriller about Web 3.0. (She published that one as Mira Grant, if you want to look for it.) I liked that one better than R&R, myself, and definitely intend to read the sequel.
Typo Boy - Sep 18, 2010 4:04:44 pm PDT #12431 of 28326
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.
Urban fantasy that is not like the Urban fantasy that is not your beautiful cake. "Iron Dragon's Daughter" by Michael Swanwick.
No guarantees, but really good and if not your beautiful cake, might still be your cup of tea, or hot beverage of choice. The Wikipedia article [link] calls it "anti-fantasy" though I think of it more a social realist fairy tale. It is a gritty urban fairyland rather than elves in our world. And believable. High school kids compete to be the wicker king and queen because they they a year of unlimited sex, drugs, scholastic and athletic achievment and top social status. So being burned to death at the end of the year is not too big a price to pay for that. I would swear half the kids I went to high school with would have taken that deal.
Consuela - Sep 18, 2010 9:52:27 pm PDT #12432 of 28326
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
Typo, I actually own a copy of that. I just... haven't read it. And right now it's buried in the many boxes of books in my garage. Some day I'll get around to it.
Deena - Sep 19, 2010 4:05:26 pm PDT #12433 of 28326
How are you me? You need to stop that. Only I can be me. ~Kara
I didn't like Rosemary and Rue as much as I did the second one. The character grows on you.
Calli - Sep 19, 2010 4:43:08 pm PDT #12434 of 28326
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
I liked Rosemary and Rue well enough, and I'm really enjoying the mystery in the follow up A Local Habitation. But Feed blew me away.
Deena - Sep 20, 2010 1:58:52 am PDT #12435 of 28326
How are you me? You need to stop that. Only I can be me. ~Kara
I just finished the third one, and other than one kind of weird scene, liked it even better than the second. I think the author's really hitting her stride.